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Source: Buffalo Courier Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Promotion for Nurses of M’Kinley” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Buffalo, New York Date of publication: 10 October 1901 Volume number: 66 Issue number: 283 Part/Section: 1 Pagination: 7 |
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| “Promotion for Nurses of M’Kinley.” Buffalo Courier 10 Oct. 1901 v66n283: part 1, p. 7. |
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| Palmer A. Eliot; John Hodgins; Ernest Vollmeyer; McKinley nurses. |
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| John Hodgins; William McKinley; Edward L. Munson; Roswell Park; Presley M. Rixey; Ernest Vollmeyer. |
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Promotion for Nurses of M’Kinley
DRS. RIXEY AND PARK COMMEND PRIVATES FOR THEIR SERVICES
AND THEY ARE NOW TAKING EXAMINATIONS.
The men nurses, or orderlies, who were selected
to attend the late President McKinley during his illness at the Milburn home,
may soon have something more substantial than the general approval of the public
for their faithful services.
Yesterday Doctors Park and Rixey, two of the President’s
attending physicians, sent certificates of commendation to all three for their
efficient work. It was not possible last evening to ascertain the exact wording
of these certificates from the men who had received them, but from another source
it was learned that the physicians wrote of the services of the men in very
flattering terms.
John Hodgins and Ernest Vollmeyer, the two privates
who attended the President, have been recommended to the Department at Washington
to be allowed to write on an examination for promotion, and in fact are now
trying their examinations at the model hospital camp at the Exposition, under
the supervision of Dr. Edward L. Munson, in charge of the camp. They will write
about a week and will not know the result of the examinations for three or four
weeks.
Should they be promoted, as in all probability
they will be, their pay will be increased about 40 per cent [sic].